Coin-separator.



C. SAVRDA.

COIN SEPARATOR.

APPLICATION FILED fes. 19. 1916.

1 ,188,494. Pzmrnted June 27, 1916.

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CHARLES SAVRDA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ABBOTT OOIN COUNTER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

COIN-SEPARATOR.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented June 27, 1916.

Application led February 19, 1916. Serial No. 79,234.

To all whom z't may concern:

which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

This invention relates to devices for separating coins, and the object thereof 1s to provide an improved device of this class which I call a gravity separator, and .by means of which coins of any denomination and in any amounts may be qulckly and easily separated and deposited 1n separate receptacles from which they may be removed and stored or packed in the usual or any preferred way.

The invention is fully disclosed 1n the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, 1nwh1ch the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved gravity coin separator; Fig. 2 a fr ont view thereof; and, Fig. 3 a central vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the accompanying drawing, I have shown my improved coin separator designed for use in separating half `ollars, quarters, nickels, pennies and dimes and, in the practice of my invention for this purpose, provide a box or casing a composed, as shown, of vertical side walls a2 and open at the front and back and having a, top plate a3 above which is a general coin receptacle a* formed by front and back plates a and a" and raised portions of the side walls a2.

At the front of the device, the top plate a3 is provided with circular apertures b designed to pass all the coins named, except half dollars, and these apertures are preferably formed in a supplement-al sheet metal plate secured in position with the front edge of the top plate as.

lVithin the box or casing a are placed diagonally arranged and oppositely inclined separator plates c, el and c, countmg from the top downwardly, and in the bottom of the box or casing is a drawer f adapted to be withdrawn and inserted from the front of the box or casing and provided with a handle f2.

Beneath the first separator plate ois a slide plate g parallel with said separator plate, and beneath the separator plate d is a slide plate h parallel with said separator and at the foot or bottom edge of the separator plates c, d and e are coin receptacles i, j and /c consisting of oblong box-shaped devices provided respectively with end pins 2, y'z and k2 adapted to enter corresponding bayonet slots 3, 3'3 and k3 in the front and back edges of the side walls a2 of the box or casmg, and in thisway the coin receptacles z', j and 7c may be inserted into position in the box or casing and removed therefrom whenever desired.

The front and back dimensions of the s llde plates g and are less than the correspondmg dimensions of the separator plates c and d whereby open spaces m and m2 are formed between the bottom edges of the separate plates 0 and d and the coin receptacles z and y'.

The separator plates 0, d and e are provided respectively with circular apertures 02, d2 and e2 of different dimensions, and in the use of this device all the coins to be separated, including half dollars,- quarters, nickels, pennies and dimes are placed in the receptacle a* at the top of the box or casing, and all of said coins except the half dollars may be passed through the apertures b, and' will fall onto the separator plate c.

I In the passage of said coins downwardly over the separator plate c all, except quarters wlll pass through the circular apertures o2, and the quarters will pass downwardly over the separator plate into the receptacle i, while all the other coins in passing through the apertures 02 will fall onto the slide plate g and move downwardly thereover onto the separator plate d, and the nickels will slide downwardly over said separator plate d into the receptacle j, while the pennies and dimes will pass through the apertures d2 and will fall onto the slide plate l1. from which they will slide onto the separator plate e and will pass downwardly thereover, and in this operation the dimes will pass through the apertures e2 and fall into the drawer f, while the pennies will slide downwardly over the separator plate e and fall into the receptacle la.

After the coins have been placed in the receptacle (L4, as hereinbefore described, they are manipulated by hand so 'as to pass them all over the apertures I), or that part of the top plate having said apertures in it, and this operation may be quickly and easily |wrlormed, and during this operation all the coins except the half dollar pieces will pass through the apertures b and be separated and deposited in the receptacles z', j, la and f as hcreinbefore described, while the half dollars alone will remain in the receptacle a* and may be removed therefrom.

My invention is not limited in its use to coins of any particular denomination and may be used in connection with coins of all denominations, or for the purpose of sepa'- rating the same, all that is necessary being to properly arrange the separator plates and slide plates and to use the required number of said plates, and to have the apertures in said separator plates of the desired size according to the coins that are to pass therethrough in the operation of the device.

My invention is also not limited to any particular form for the receptacles z', y', and f but, in their preferred form and use said receptacles are made detachable, and my invention is also not limited to any particular form or construction of the box or casing a, and said box or casing may be made in any desired manner, and may be entirely inclosed if desired.

The construction shown and described involves four separators, namely, the top plate a and the inclined separator plates c, (l and c, it being understood that the largest coins placed on the top plate or in the top receptacle are left there and do not pass through the apertures b. All the other sizes or denominations of coins pass through the apertures b onto the separator plate c, and the largest size or denomination pass into the receptacle z', while all the rest pass through the separator plates c and fall onto the slide plate g from which they pass onto the separator plate d, and the next largest size or denomination fall into the receptacles j, while the others pass through the separator plate al onto the slide plate t from which they pass onto the separator plate e, while the coins of larger size or denomination that fall onto the separator plate c pass into the receptacle 1, and the smallest coins pass into the drawer or receptacle f, and applicant is thus able to separate live different denominations or sizes of coins with the use of only three inclined separator plates.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. A gravity coin separator comprising meaeet 'an upright box or casing provided at the bottom edges of said separator plates at the opposite sides of the box 0r casing and adapted to receive coins which pass downwardly thereover, inclined slide plates placed beneath all the separator plates except the bottom one, and a removable receptacle placed under the bottom separator plate.

2. A gravity coin separator comprising an upright box or casing provided at the top thereof with a coin receptacle having a flat bottom provided adjacent to one side edge thereof with apertures of predetermined dimensions, downwardly inclined and alternately arranged separator plates within said box or casing and placed one above another and provided with apertures of predetermined dimensions, detachable receptacles placed on the bottom edges of said separator plates at the opposite sides of the box or casing and adapted to receive coins which pass downwardly over said separator plates,

inclined slide plates placed beneath all the separator plates except the bottom one, and a removable receptacle placed under the bottom separator plate.

3. A gravity coin separator comprising an upright box or casing provided at the top thereof with a coin receptacle having a flat bottom provided with apertures of predetermined ldimensions and adapted to serve as a separator plate, downwardly inclined and oppositely and alternately arranged separator plates within said box or casing and 4placed one above another and provided with apertures of predetermined dimensions, detachable receptacles placed under the bottom edges of said inclined separator plates and at the opposite sides of the box or casing, slide plates placed beneath all the inclined separator plates except the bottom one, and a removable receptacle -placed under the bottom separator plate.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 17th day of February, 1916.

C. MULREANY, H. E. II-IoMPsoN. 

